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Where Woman is Queen.

In Ohio married woman's rights are CO.
equal with her husbands. If she owns
separate real estate she can sell and convey
it without consulting her husband. If she
wants to mortgage or lease her farm or
house and lot she is at perfect liberty to do
so. Ii she possesses personal property it is
her own, and it will pass to her husband
only by her consent. Tue law regarding
man and wife has been completely revolu-
tionized by mere act of simplification.
She can buy and sell, sue and be sued in
her own name without any intervention OF
her husband or next friend" Ii she is in
debt when she marries, her husband is not
bound to pay the Indebtedness unless be
chooses. The creditor must collect from
the real debtor. In other words, the rights
of man and wife are made exactly identi-
cal. Whatever right the man possesses
under the marriage relation, the same right
is possessed by the wife without modifca-
ton or abridgement. According to the law
of Ohio to-day, husband and wife are not
one person, but two separate aud distinct
individuals as far as their independent
right to acquire and dispose of personal.
real and mixed property is concerned. ii
she calls her next door neighbor an anti
quated parallelogram and no better than
the hypothenuse of right angle triangle,
her unfortunate husband is not bound to
go into the Court and be mulcted in $4,000,
more or less, for SANDER Some of the most
complicated and yexatious litigation which
has ever numbered up the dockets of the
Ohio Courts, enriched lawyers and impov-
erished widows and orphans. will be pre-
vented and hereafter rendered impossible
by this law
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Masonic Statistics,

From careful estimate made from re-
ports 10 the different masonic bodies, the
following figures have been obtained, which
will be of interest to members of the Order
and others: In Germany there are 342
lodges Switzerland has 80 Hungary, A;
Rcumania, II; Seryia, / England and
Wales, 1,1S7; Scotland, 334; Ireland, 800
Gibraltar, s. Malta, 4; Holland. and Lux
embourg, 46; Belgium, Is; Denmark, Z;
Sweden and Norway, Is; Frarce, $50
Spain, about 500; Portugal, %; Italy, 10
Greece, IL; Turkey, i6; Egypt, 2s Alge.
ria. II: Tunis, 2; Morocco, .; the west
coast of Africa, IL African Islands, %;
the Cape, 81 Arabia tAden), l India, lis
Indian Islands. IS; China, -; Japan, 5;
Australia, 229; Australian Islands. Il
New Zealand, 4; United States, 1921; Can
ada, 535; Cuba, 80; Hayti, 80; West Indian
Islands, Co. Mexico, 13; Brazil, 256; other
South American States, I79. making to-
tai of 14,625. The number of members is
estimated at about 100000, which makes
an average OF about $40 members to a lodge
The humber 81 lodges and members has
largely increased in the last six years, and
the next report will show great increase
throughout the world Canadian Crafts
nan
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PASTEUR'S TREATMENT.
Figures Which Show the Benefits of the
Discovery.

According TO the report of the Perpetual
Secretary, the number of persons subjected
at the institute to the Pasteur treatment
during the fourteen months from the end
of October, 1885, to the end of December,
1856, was, in all, 1852.
Of this number :, 16i had been bitten by
animals known for certain to have been
mad at the time Of biting, and the remain
ing SIS by animals suspected 10 have been
mad. OF the 2.164 bitten by animals IN
doubtedly mad, and treated according to
Pasteurs method, 20 persons died, repre-
senting a proportionate mortality of /. 81
per cent. OF the SIT bitten by animals
presumed TO be mad and subjected to Pas
tours treatment, only two died.. e. 03S
per cent.
Now, the statistics of rabies before the
discovery and application of the Pasteur
method give the proportion of mortality
from that disease among the persons af-
fected by it as at lowest 16 per cent. If,
then, the 2,164 persons in the state des-
cribed had not been treated by the Pasteur
method the cases of mortality among them,
according TO the determination of the sta
tistics, would have been not 90 but 346
That is to say, of the 9, 164 persons, 81 owe
their present existence to Pasteur's method.
Looking next, exclusively to the most
dangerous cases, we find that there were
As persons bitten by mad wolves, 1S6 per-
sons bitten on the head or face by animals
known to be mad, and % bitten by animals
presumed 10 be mad. OF the As in ques-
ton died.. E., a mortality of IA per
cent.
The mortality in similar cases before the
Pasteur method is ascertained to have been
60 to so per cent. Moreover three of the
forty eight persons had actually broken out
in rabies before the application ofthe treat
ment and their deaths may therefore be
left out of account, thus reducing the NOR
| tally of this class under the Pssteur treat
ment to per cent, as against 60 per cent.
to so per cent. without the Pasteur treat
ment. OF the 1S6 above specified, the
number of persons who died was nine, or
81 per cent, as against IS per cent. with
out the Pasteur treatment That is out of
the 1S6, 1913 would have died but for the
Pasteur treatment, whereas with the Pas
teur treatment only nine died.
Lastly, of the twenty eight above speci-
fed only one died e. mortality of 81
per cent All that does not, however, ex-
haust the statement of the Pasteur benefit
For some months past NJ Pasteur has mod
flied his method, and III the most serious
cases has applied, not simple, but intens-
i've treatment. as he terms it. And, when
as out of the 136 specially serious cases in
which the simple treatment was applied
nine died, in fifty specially serious cases in
which intensive treatment was applied no
mortality whatever occurred.
DR.. Vulpian, the Secretary of the Insti-
tute, is therefore. fully justified in his con-
ciusion that Pasteur's preventive for rab-
les is one of the happiest discoveries ever
made, either from scientific or human
tartan point of view.-Lond0n Times.
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Areteran,s "Reminiscences.

Did ever tell you of little incident
that happened during the Indian war of
1862" said Lieutenant Morgan, of the
police force. recently. well. | was a
member of Company A, Sixth Min
nesota Volunteers. When we were
up in county which had been
devastated by the Sioux there was
detail from our company sent out under
the command of Captain Grant, of my COM
pany, TO bury the dead. Above Birch
coulee we found man who told US that he.
with his wife, two daughters and little
son, were in the garden when he heard the
crack of guns. He wife and daughter fell
dead. He grabbed the boy and started to
run down the road. He was followed BY
the Indians, yelling savagely and firing
rapidly. He could not carry the boy and
get away, SO he dropped him and ran On.
The little fellow followed him, shouting.
Papa, papa but was soon overtaken by
the Indians. and he heard him shrek ana
knew that &c had been killed. After
burying the dead around Redwood we
came back By the way of where the man
lived, and found ihe bodies OF his rife and
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Common MYTHS.

Ignorant folk, wonder-mongers, and even
scientific observers, have disseminated many
erroneous and exaggerated notions which
are not readily eradicated. We are still
told, for instance, of the Norwegian mael-
strom, a frightful whirling chasm in the
sea capable of sucking down the largest
ships; though, in reality. this fearful
whirlpool" is simply q run of the tide
through a sloping channel, is rarely dang
erous, and then chiefly on account of the
rocks on which il may draw vessels. Sir
John Herschel gave his Endorsement to the
statement that stars may be seen in the
daytime from the bottom of well, but this
has been proven to be an error by tests
from shaft nearly half mile deep. John
Murdoch has recently shown that the Eski-
mos do not, as textbooks of physiology
affirm, doze through their long winter
night, keeping up their bodily heat by
enormous meals of raw blubber and lamp
oil, but that their winter life is active their
food mostly cooked, and their consumption
of oil not excessive still widely-ac-
cepted belief is that the hair-snal1e is
wonderful transformation of horses
hair when kept in water, though these odd
creatures (known to science as G0rdius
dquGttcts), really grow from eggs, and in
early stages inhabit the bodies of insects.
A very old idea. without foundation in
TACT, is that crocCdiles shed mournfui tears:
while stories of toads imprisoned IN Solid
rock are numerous, ana supported by
much evidence, but have probably resulted
from imperfect observation. Accounts of
the termination of grain from the mummy
pits of Egypt have arisen from deception
practiced by the Arabs in placing fresh
seeds with the belongings of the mummies.
Though now known to be incorrect, the in
ference that the moon influences the
weather is very natural one to unframed
observers, and is far less absurd than a
thousand vagaries that gain credence such
as, the dropping of live reptiles from the
clouds, the election of live snakes and other
creatures from the human stomach, the To-
calization of water by forked stick, the
extinguisbment OF fire by sunshine, etc.
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ANIMAL HEAT.-In the animals endowed
with the most perfect respiratory organs.
the bodily heat remains uniform through
all changes of temperature of the surround
ing medium. Respiration is more active
in birds than in any other class of animals,
and their temperature is uniformly higher
than acy other. ranging from 1o6o to 1120
Fahrenheit. In the mann malta it is from 95o
10 I050, varying for adult man, in different
individuals, from 989 to 1902 During fe-
yers it is several degrees higher, reaching
1862 or 1070 in scarlet and typhus fevers I;
while in other forms of disease it falls a
little below the normal, descending to 6eo
in a remarkable case not long age reported.
IN health it is about degree and half
lower during sleep than when awake, and
is some degrees higher in the very young
than in the very old. In reptiles. fishes
and all so-called cold-blooded animals, the
temperature of the body is very little above
that of the surrounding air or water rising
or falling with the external changes.
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President Garfield's Finances.
Insome photographed notes furnished
by President Garfield to Edmund Kirke as
m aterinl for q III M GnrHald sold

In some autobiographical notes furnished
by President Garfield to Edmund Kirke as
material for a life, Mr. Garfield said
By 1917 l was out of debt for college ex-
penses and even with the world. At the
time of my marriage-Novembe IL, 1855
| had accumulated about twelve hundred
dollars-the result of my salary and lect-
uring before some literary associations.
We lived very economically and frugally,
and-shll continuing to teach and lecture
j was worth when went into the army,
in July, 1861, about three thousand dollars,
After about years service in the army
! returned home deadly sick, and, when
sufficiently recovered, went on to Washing
ton to serve on the Fitz John Porter court
martial On my return home was assign
ed to Rosecrans, who then commanded the
army of the Cumberland. | was at home
only one day and two nights, but during
that time | bought the house at Hiram, for
which paid $1,000. While I was away
with Rosecrans at this time my wife built
an addition to the Hiram house, at a cost
of 81 900. When | returned from the war,
in December, 1863, | was worth this house,
costing 81 200, and nearly S. 600 besides :
that is, while il the army | had saved
about s., 900.
If they propose to discuss the question of
honesty, here is a point. During my army
life as the Chief of Rosecrans' staff l was
asked twenty times in day to grant per-
mits to so through the lines and trade in
cotton. By doing this I could have made
myself rich: and yet | came out of my two
and a half years service, having saved in
all that time, only two thousand-and my
pay as Brigadier had been three thousand
a year, and for the last few months. as
Maior-General. five thousand. | had to
pay for my own horse and uniform, though
we have some few allowances. | bad, of
course, to live like gentleman and to sup
port my family, but neither my wife nor |
spent money needlessly. =
l served in the army up to the 9th OF De-
cember, 1868, resigned one day, and took
my seat in Congress the next. had not
even time, coming direct from the field as
| did with dispatches to get suit of civil
ian's clothes. l delivered my dispatches
to Lincoln and Halleck from Rosecrans,
went over the ground with them, and then
took my seat in the House. / stayed in
Washington alone the first winter, leav-
ing my wife and our little Harry
at Hiram. When | got home from that
session, and we were sitting together in
our little parlor, my wife slipped into my
hand little memorandum that she had
made. In it she figured out that We had
been married four years and three quarters,
and lived together only twenty weeks
The North -4n:eTicnn for Jtly.
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THE WORLD.

The world is queer old fellow:
As you journey along by his side
You had better conceal any trouble YOU feel
If you want to tickle his pride.
No matter how heavy your burden
Don't tell him about it, pray;
He viii only grow colder and shrug his shout
der,
And hurriedly walk away.
But carefully cover your sorrow,
And the world viii be your friend
II only you'll bury your wees and be merry
He II cling to you close to the end.
Don't ask him to lift one finger
To tighten your burden, because
He never win share il; but silently bear il
And he will be loud with applause
The world is a vain old fellow:
You must laugh at his sallies of wit;
No matter how brutal remonstrance is futile
And frowns will not change him one whit
And since you must journey together
Down paths where all mortal feet go,
Why, life holds more SAVIOR TO keep in his favor
For he's an unmerciful foe.
Ella lI'heeler UIlcOr
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The treatment of many thousands OF cases
of those chronic weaknesses and distressing
ailments peculiar to females, at the lnvalidS'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y,
has afforded vast experience in nicely
adapting and thoroughly testing remedies
for the cure of womaa's peculiar maladies.
DIR. Pierce's FaVOrite Prescription
is the outgrowth, or result, of this great
and valuable experience. Thousands of
testimonials, received from patients and
from physicians who have tested it in the
more aggravated and obstinate cases which
had baffled their skill, prove it to be the
most wonderful remedy ever devised for
the relief and cure of suffering women. 1t
is not recommended as cure-all," but
as a most perfect Specific for woman's
peculiar ailments.
AS q powerful, fnyigorating tonic,
il imparts strength to the whole system,
and to the uterus or womb and its ap-
pendages, in particular. For evcrworked,
'worn-out, rundown" debilitated teach
ers, milljners, dressmakers, seamstresses,
"shop-girls," housckeepers, nursing moth
ers, and feeble women generally, DR..
Pierces Favorite Prescription is the great
est earthly boon, being unequalled as an
appetizing cordial and restorative tonic. 1t
promotes digestion and assimilation of food
Address, WORRIES DESPl
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All About Lobsters.

HOLSTERS were known to the old Roman
gourmands by the name of LOcuSts, under
which appellation they doubtless tasted as
sweet as does our modern Homarus Ameyi.
canus. There is but one species in our wa
tiers. 1t is found ON the Atlantic coast
from New York northward, being chiefly
taken on the rocky shores of New England
north of Cape Cod and Boston is the great
lobster mart. The crustaceans migrate
shoreward from the deep waters early in
the spring, scatter over their feeding
grounds, and raid the clans, mussels and
other mollusks. They remain all summer,
during which time the lobster fishermen
gather harvest. The lobster boats are
species of small lugger. with one large sail
and one small one. Each carries haif-a-
dozen or more traps. These traps are OBJ
long structures, hat-bottomed and with
curved open roofs of oaken wands. At
each end of the trap is a piece of netting
with round hole in the center. The trap,
baited with dead menhaden or moss
bunker" is sunk to the bottom, its position
being marked by a red white and blue
buoy on the surface. The lobster enters by
the fatal netting-door, and is a free crusta-
cean no longer for, while it Is easy enough
for him to get in. his extended claws effect
ually prevent egress. As soon as the trap
is supposed to be well tenanted, the bold
fisherman pulls il up. The task Of taking
out the catch is fraught with danger, for the
lobster is vicious and his claws are formi-
dable. The fisherman wears a loose wooden
glove or mitten on one hand, which he
thrusts through little door in the top of
the trap, Selling the HOLSTERS and taking
them out one by one. Each lobster, if his
length be at all doubtful. is laid upon a
measuring board, ten and one-half inches
long. This is the legal measurement, and
all falling short of it must be thrown over
board again. Those which pass muster are
disarmed by plugging their claws shut with
wooden peg. In this condition they are
packed in floating car or cask, with
plenty of holes in it, and sent alive to Bos-
ton. HOLSTERS caught further away, how
ever, say 100 miles or more up the coast,
are at once taken ashore to some tumble
down shed and plunged into boiling water
causing their coat of dark olive green to
change to that bright scarlet which de-
lights our eyes on the market-stand or
the table where we dine.
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THE VERSATILE BABY.

The little tot'ring baby feet,
With faltering steps and slow.
With pattering echoes soft and sweet
Into my heart they go;
They also go, in grimy plays,
In muddy pools and dusty w1ys,
Then through the house in trackfui maze
They wander to and fro.
The baby hands that clasred my neck
With touches dear to me,
Are the same hands that smash and wreck
The inkstand foul to see;
They pound the mirror with a cane,
They rend the manuscript in twain,
Widespread destruction they ordain
In waSteful jubilee.
The dreamy, murm' ring baby voice
That COOS its little tune,
That makes my listening heart rejoice
Like birds in leafy June
Can make that midnight dark and still,
And all the air with bowling fill,
That splits the ear with echoes shrill,
Like comets out of tune.
-Blrdette in Brooklyn Eagle.
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WoNrN OF GEN1rs-Yerr few wnmer

WOMEN OF GEEIus.-Very few women
distinguished in literature have found fame
and fortune early in life. George Eliot was
80 when her first story was published; Mrs
Stoves g Uncle Toms Cabin" appeared in
the Both year of her life; Elizabeth brown
ing was married at 81, and all her best
work was done after that event; 81. H .
became famous after she was 40 years oil
age and Louise Alcott's first really good
story was not published until she was So
Very few, indeed, have sprung into the
g seat of the immortals, and eli have had
long years of encouragement and hard
work. Nine parts perseverance and study
and one part genius is the average with
them.-C Chicago Current.
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A LONE FLowER.-0n Mount Whitney,
the highest mountain in California. at q
level of 1900 feet above the sea and / SOC
feet above the timber line, where there is
no soil and no moisture save snow and hail
and ice, there grows little flower shaped
like bell flower, gaudy in eolors of red
purple and blue. Ii is called Jacobs lad
der, and its fragrance partakes of the white
jasmine. II blooms alone. for it not only
has no floral associates, but there is no
creature, not even bird or insect, TO keep il
company.-Ercaange.
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daughters, as he had said. Down the road
we found the body of the little boy thrown
into the hazel brush. The bodies were all
mutilated in a horrible manner. At thetight
at Birch coulee the man was killed. II be
told his name | cannot now remember.
That was one family wiped out. In all the
reports # those dark days this circum-
stance has never been published. st.
PdaH Pioneer Press
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Rn pregnancy, 50 Favorite Prescription -
is mothers cordinl," relieving nausea,
weakness of stomach and other distressing
symptoms common to that condition. ii
its use is kept up in the latter months OF
CESSATION, it so prepares the system for de-
livery as to greatly lessen, and many times
almost entirely do away with the sufferings
of that trying ordeal.
"Eayori:e Prescriptions, when taken
in connection with the use of DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, and small laxa-
tive doses of DIR. Pierce's Purgatiye Pellets
little Liver Pills, cures Liver, Kidney and
Bladder diseases. Their combined use also
removes blood taints, and abolishes ca1l-
cerous and scrotuioGs humors from the
system.
medicine for women sold, by druggists
under a positive guarantee, from the
manufacturers, that it viii give satisfac-
ton in every case, or money viii nc re-
funded. This guarantee has been printed
on the bottlc-wrapper, ard faithfully car
ried out for many years. Large bottles
100 doses) $500, or six bottles for
$500.
~ Send ten cents in stamps for Dr..
Piercc's large, illustrated Treatise GEO
pagesl en- Diseases of Women.
Ge2 Nr1t,s Se-aas 2TIFTsrAUn N "
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cures nausea, weakness of stomach, indi-
gestion, bloating and eructations of gas.
AS soothing and strengthening
nervine," Favorite Prescription is un-
equalled and is invaluable in allaying and
subduing nervous excitability, irritability,
exhaustion, prostration. hysteria, spasms
and other distressing, nervous symptoms
commonly attendant upon functional and
organic disease of the womb. 1t induces
refreshing sleep and relieves mental anx-
iety and dependency.
Br. Pierce's EavOrise Prescription
is q legitimate medicine. carefully
compounded by an experienced and slliilful
physician, and adapted TO woman's delicate
Organization. 1t is purely vegetable in its
composition and perfectly harmless IN its
effects in any condition of the system.
"FavOrite Prescriptions IS q posi-
tive cure for the most complicated and
obstinate cases of leucorrhea, or whites, -
excessive flowing ut monthly periods, pain
full menstruation, unnatural suppressions,
prolapsus or falling of the womb, weak
hack, female Weakness" anteyersion, re
troversior, hearing-down sensations, cnrOn-
ic congestion, inflammation and liberation
of the womb, inflammation. pain and ten
derness in ovaries, accompanied with a in
ternal heat"
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RArIp1rY OF TREE GRowrH.-cultivated

RAPIpITY OF TREE Observation-Disclosures
IN groves the average growth in twelve
years Of several varieties of hard wood has
been ascertained TO be about as follows :
White maple reaches 1 foot in diameter
and 30 feet in hight; ash, leaf maple, or
box elder, foot in diameter and 20 feet in
hight; white willow, Is inches and 10 feet /;
yellow willow, Is inches, aud 30 feet Lom-
hardy poplar, 10 inches, and 40 feet; blue
and white ash, 10 inches. and 25 feet black
walnut and butternGt, 10 inches, and 10
feet